Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 130: Mishneh Torah, Sefer ahavah, Hilkhot tefilah u-virkat kohanim, XIII, 14-XV, ; Hilkhot tefilin u-mezuzah ṿe-Sefer Torah, I, 6-VII Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 130: Mishneh Torah, Sefer ahavah, Hilkhot tefilah u-virkat kohanim, XIII, 14-XV, ; Hilkhot tefilin u-mezuzah ṿe-Sefer Torah, I, 6-VII are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is ©2017 University of Pennsylvania Books & Manuscripts and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 28 complete paper fols., consecutive except for one missing (8/9); Catchwords appear at end of each fascicle (and fols. 1-3 as well); paragraph endings are denoted with three dots plus 3-5 spaces; Of the first fascicle, the last eight fols. are extant. They contain the text from the end of Hilkhot tefillah, XIII 14 אילו to the end of the section (XIV 12), signed: בריך רחמנא דסייען, and followed by the headline of the following section הלכות תפלין ומזוזה וספר תורה; The first fol. of the next fascicle is missing. The remaining 10 fols. resume at Hilkhot tefillin I 6 עורות הן to the end of chapter III, including the three illustrations there. The following fascicle, numbered ל is complete, containing 10 fols., ending at the end of chapter six; The catchword there infers that the next headline is not the name הלכות ספר תורה, rather merely the number פרק שביעי. Nor is הלכות נשיאת כפים (Tefillah XIV-XV) designated a distinct headline. The text is divided into un-numbered paragraphs; If these are fascicles 28-30, the codex must have started at the beginning of Mishneh Torah, probably including the introduction. Condition: consecutive; lacking original first bifolium, and string (Halper). United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 130 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940418203503681 Hebrew Mishneh Torah, Sefer ahavah, Hilkhot tefilah u-virkat kohanim, XIII, 14-XV, ; Hilkhot tefilin u-mezuzah ṿe-Sefer Torah, I, 6-VII Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204. موسى بن ميمون משה בן מימון, 1138-1204 Моше Бен Маймон, 1135-1204 Ibn Maymūn, Mūsā b. ʿUbayd (Abū ʿImrān Mūsā b. ʿUbayd), 1135-1204 Moïse Maïmonide, 1135-1204 Maimónides, 1135-1204 Maimonide, Moïse, 1135-1204 Moïse Maïmonide 1138-1204 Maimonides, Moses, 1138-1204 Maimónides משה בן מימון موسى بن ميمون، 529-601 هـ. Moses ben Maimon, 1135-1204 Maimonides, Moses إبن ميمون، أبو عمران موسى بن عبيد الله، 1135-1204 Ibn Maimūn, Mūsā, 1135-1204 Mūsā ibn Maimūn, 1135-1204

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Orient Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library). Sulzberger. Prayer , Judaism , Early works to 1800